Friday, 07 August 2009

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then
the socket packet pocket has an error to report!

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icons put your window in the trash, And
your data is corrupted ‘cause the index doesn’t hash, Then your
situation’s hopeless, and your system’s gonna crash!

If the label on your cable on the gable at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel to another protocol,
That’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall.

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, So
your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
‘Cause as sure as I’m a poet, the sucker’s gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy’s getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary RISC,
Then you have to flash your memory and you’ll want to RAM your ROM,
Quickly turn off your computer and be sure to tell your mom!

Search for Astley’s name on YouTube
and you’ll find dozens of instances of the campy, infectious video,
which features a heavily coiffed Astley bobbing and swaying behind
oversized sunglasses. He’s flanked by two blond backup dancers (one of
whom apparently didn’t have the footwork down), and a male bartender in
short shorts who excels at spontaneous back flips.

Rickrolling is an example of an Internet “meme”
(defined by Wikipedia as “any unit of cultural information ... that
gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to
another"). Its less sophisticated memetic forebear is the “duckroll,” where the roll-ee is misdirected to an image of a duck on wheels. And the Rickroll has sired many memelets, including the Fresh Prince roll, the rainroll (plopping you in front of a video of Tay Zonday’s "Chocolate Rain") and even the Reichroll, where Astley’s song is spliced with footage of Adolf Hitler for an unsettling sort of lip sync.

Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a web link
that he or she claims is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link
actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or
obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true
destination of the link without clicking. When a person clicks on the
link and is led to the web page, he or she is said to have been "Rickrolled" (also spelled Rickroll'd).

As the practice has spread, two of the various Rickrolling videos
available online have been viewed more than 36 million times combined.[1][2]
These figures track the total number of visits, not individual viewers.
Rickrolling has extended beyond Web links to playing the video or song
disruptively in other situations, including public places;[3] this culminated when Astley and the song made a surprise appearance in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade,[4] a televised event with tens of millions of viewers.

Origin of the term

The practice is said to have begun as a variant of an earlier prank from the imageboard4chan known as duckrolling,[7] in which a link to somewhere (such as a specific picture or news item) would instead lead to a thread or site containing an edited picture of a duck with wheels. The user at that point is said to have been "duckrolled".

The first known instance of Rickroll occurred in May 2007 on /v/, 4chan's video game board, where a link to the Rick Astley video was claimed to be a mirror of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV (which was unavailable due to heavy traffic). The joke was confined to 4chan for a very brief period.[7]

By May 2008,[8]
the practice had spread beyond 4chan and become an Internet phenomenon,
eventually amassing some coverage in the mainstream media.[3][9][10] An April 2008 poll by SurveyUSA estimated that at least 18 million American adults had been Rickrolled.[11]

An elderly Floridian called 911 on her cell phone to report that
her car has been broken into. She is hysterical as she explains her
situation to the dispatcher: 'They've stolen the stereo, the steering
wheel, the brake pedal and even the accelerator!' she cried. The
dispatcher said, 'Stay calm.. An officer is on the way.' A few minutes
later, the officer radios in. 'Disregard.' He says. She got in the
back-seat by mistake.'
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FAMILY Three sisters ages 92, 94 and 96 live in a house
together. One night the 96 year old draws a bath. She puts her foot in
and pauses. She yells to the other sisters, 'Was I getting in or out of
the bath?' The 94 year old yells back, 'I don't know. I'll come up and
see.' She starts up the stairs and pauses 'Was I going up the stairs or
down?' The 92 year old is sitting at the kitchen table having tea
listening to her sisters. She shakes her head and says, 'I sure hope I
never get that forgetful, knock on wood.' She then yells, 'I'll come up
and help both of you as soon as I see who's at the door.'
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I CAN HEAR JUST FINE!' Three retirees, each with a hearing
loss, were playing golf one fine March day. One remarked to the other,
'Windy, isn't it?' 'No,' the second man replied, 'it's Thursday.' And
the third man chimed in, 'So am I. Let's have a beer.'
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SUPERSEX A little old lady was running up and down the halls
in a nursing home. As she walked, she would flip up the hem of her
nightgown and say 'Supersex..' She walked up to an elderly man in a
wheelchair Flipping her gown at him, she said, 'Supersex.' He sat
silently for a moment or two and finally answered, 'I'll take the soup.'
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ROMANCE An older couple were lying in bed one night. The
husband was falling asleep but the wife was in a romantic mood and
wanted to talk. She said: 'You used to hold my hand when we were
courting.' Wearily he reached across, held her hand for a second and
tried to get back to sleep. A few moments later she said: 'Then you
used to kiss me.' Mildly irritated, he reached across, gave her a peck
on the cheek and settled down to sleep. Thirty seconds later she said:
'Then you used to bite my neck.' Angrily, he threw back the bed clothes
and got out of bed. 'Where are you going?' she asked.
'To get my teeth!'
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DOWN AT THE RETIREMENT CENTER 80-year old Bessie bursts into
the rec room at the retirement home. She holds her clenched fist in the
air and announces, 'Anyone who can guess what's in my hand can have sex
with me tonight!!' An elderly gentleman in the rear shouts out, 'An
elephant?' Bessie thinks a minute and says, 'Close enough.'
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OLD FRIENDS Two elderly ladies had been friends for many
decades. Over the years, they had shared all kinds of activities and
adventures. Lately, their activities had been limited to meeting a few
times a week to playcards. One day, they were playing cards when one
looked at the other and said, 'Now don't get mad at me . I know we've
been friends for a long time but I just can't think of your name! I've
thought and thought, but I can't remember it. Please tell me what your
name is.' Her friend glared at her. For at least three minutes she just
stared and glared at her. Finally she said, 'How soon do you need to
know?'
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SENIOR DRIVING As a senior citizen was driving down the
freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife's voice
urgently warning him, 'Herman, I just heard on the news that there's a
car going the wrong way on Interstate 77. Please be careful!' 'Hell,'
said Herman, 'It's not just one car. It's hundreds of them!'
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DRIVING Two elderly women were out driving in a large car;
both could barely see over the dashboard. As they were cruising along,
they came to an intersection. The stoplight was red, but they just went
on through. The woman in the passenger seat thought to herself 'I must
be losing it. I could have sworn we just went through a red light.'
After a few more minutes, they came to another intersection and the
light was red again. Again, they went right through. The woman in the
passenger seat was almost sure that the light had been red but was
really concerned that she was losing it. She was getting nervous at the
next intersection, and sure enough, the light was red and they went on
through. So, she turned to the other woman and said, 'Mildred, did you
know that we just ran through three red lights in a row? You could have
killed us both!' Mildred turned to her and said, 'Oh! Am I driving?'

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